Hi and welcome to the A16Z podcast goes remote. I'm Doss and in this

podcast I call a 16Z security expert Joel Deligarsa to chat about what the

rapid widespread move to remote work

means for security?

With so many people going remote

the same way that we are, what's top of mind

for you as a security expert?

There is a concept in information security,

which is the belief in defense in depth and that

means that you don't rely on any one thing to protect you.

You have a series of things that you use and you stack them on top of each other and you use those

series of things to offer multiple layers of protection. You don't just put a moat

around the castle, you also put walls and you have archers and you have hot oil ready to pour on people that try to storm it.

And so in security we have those same sorts of controls.

The challenge for security teams is that a lot of those controls for a lot of companies only live in their

office and only live in their corporate network.

And so when users take their machines home with them or they're remotely accessing, they

don't necessarily have the same controls in the office as they do at home.

And if you look at some of the large breaches over the last, let's say five years, you'd see

that there are a number of instances where remote employees using a

home computer that's perhaps shared with someone in the house that doesn't have

protections on it is used to access internal corporate information by an attacker that's hacked it.

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